-
The battle for the western Yemeni port of Hudaydah could be an important milestone in the three-year civil war. But analysts say the conflict is so complex that even...
-
Iraq holds its first parliamentary election on Saturday since defeating Daesh, but few people expect its new leaders to deliver the stability and economic prosperity that have long been...
-
Benjamin Netanyahu is the dominant Israeli politician of his generation. On the domestic and international stage, no rival comes close to the veteran Likud Party leader known widely as...
-
An estimated 65 per cent of more than 1,700 female inmates in Jordan’s prisons are held under the 60-year-old law that allows the authorities to indefinitely incarcerate women considered to be at risk of being attacked or killed in the name of family honour